Two start-up companies -- one that helps busy families prepare nutritious, home-cooked meals and a biomedical venture that is developing a handheld diagnostic tool for health care professionals -- each have won $10,000 in a business plan competition at the University of California, Davis.

Ensembles LLC of San Ramon and Mesolytics of Davis shared the first place award in the sixth annual Big Bang! Business Plan Competition, organized by MBA students of the Graduate School of Management to promote entrepreneurship, innovation and hands-on learning.

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